One Day

Ballet legend Carla Fracci, dubbed the “Queen of Italian Dance”, has died after a long illness on May 27, 2021, at 84. Étoile of Milan’s La Scala Theatre Ballet, she also worked with the Royal Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre, among many other companies, and her dance partners included Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev and Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov.

An Ode

At a Window

Margot Fonteyn at a window in Granada, Spain, 1953. Photo: Baron/Getty Images.

Staging the Screen

Margot Fonteyn on a cruise to the Greek islands, 1951. Photo courtesy of Joan Leigh Fermor.

Physique du rôle

Margot Fonteyn and Sir Frederick Ashton at the barre in a boat. Photo courtesy of Joan Leigh Fermor.

The Stars Must Wait

Yvette Chauviré, (born in Paris on April 22, 1917), the Grande Dame of French ballet, has died at the age of 99 at her home in Paris on October 19. She is pictured above at the Paris Opera on 6 November 1937. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.